Stanley Kurtz echoes some of the sentiments I’ve expressed the last few days, and rehearses certain arguments I’ve spent years here making: […] don’t think American libel law, so much less plaintiff-friendly than British libel law, gives us a free pass. At the counterterrorism blog, Jeffrey Breinholt explains how even American libel laws can be used to intimidate and silence speech. As I point out in “Not Without a Fight,”

Why, probably dressed in pith helmets and armed with evidence bags, digging around Sarah Palin’s vagina in search of hidden emails like spelunkers in search of demon eggs, is my guess. Or was your question merely rhetorical?

Not according to the pundits but rather to the undecideds. Who, let’s face it, are undecided at this point for a reason: If you want to assess the “winner” of a campaign debate, the only data that matters is the post-debate polling — not the pronouncements of the pundits. It will be some days before we see what effect the McCain-Obama debate at Ole Miss has on the national polls,

…on the bail out. Darleen has the details.